Estimating canopy characteristics of inner mongolia's grasslands from field spectrometry

Remote Sensing

Volumn 6, Issue 3, 2014, Pages 2239-2254

  Zhang, Feng ^a   John, Ranjeet ^b   Zhou, Guangsheng ^a,c   Shao, Changliang ^a   Chen, Jiquan ^b,d  

^a INSTITUTE OF BOTANY   (China)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TOLEDO   (United States)

^c STATE KEY LABORATORY OF SEVERE WEATHER   (China)

^d NANJING UNIVERSITY OF INFORMATION SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (China)

Author keywords

Continuum removal spectra; Hyperspectral field spectroscopy; Reflectance spectra; Vegetation biophysical characteristics; Vegetation indices

Indexed keywords

BIOPHYSICS; ECOSYSTEMS; REFLECTION; VEGETATION;

BIOPHYSICAL CHARACTERISTICS; CONTINUUM REMOVAL; FIELD SPECTROSCOPY; REFLECTANCE SPECTRUM; VEGETATION INDEX;

ESTIMATION;

EID: 84896955769     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20724292     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3390/rs6032239     Document Type: Article

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